pack-road

I looked longingly up the valley, but my way turned off to the right, following the pack-road to the ferry at Fulin.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

And now woe to the unwary or to the newcomer who thinks our heather-covered moors are all plain sailing! for along them run long lines of ruts, the remains of the old pack-road of the Middle Ages, worn by the traffic of centuries and now covered deep in purple heath.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

The road they were following scarcely deserved the name; being a pack-road, or mere bridle-path; and so sleep was the ascent, that it was necessary to zigzag nearly a dozen times, before the summit of the ridge could be attained.

Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850